While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    defending the capitalist business owner

    I did no such thing, don’t accuse me of defending some bougie piece of shit for stealing wages.

    I’m just saying, the solution isn’t to destroy productive capacity or go on an individualistic adventure. It solves nothing and now those other workers just lost their jobs.

    There were other steps that could have been taken. If they had exhausted every avenue then maybe an adventure is all that’s left, but I just don’t think that’s what happened here.

    And if adventure is the only hope, at least just target the boss and don’t take way peoples’ work opportunities.